Baltimore

Baltimore is a city that has been through a number of trying transitions from closures of its mills along the Jones Falls to the abandoned textile mills, steel, automotive, and garment factories. There are entire sections of town that have been left untouched since being burned out during the MLK riots, as well as neighborhoods left uninhabited from the shrinking population. Buildings that used to be propelled by industry and are now in a variety of states abandon and repair, either passed from hand to hand putting their own diverse touches and alterations towards a succession of patchwork jobs. There are the few that have been iconicized and revamped, standing out of time and consistently out of place with each other, creating a cacophony of undirected progressions of the cityscape at large. Baltimore is a city that wears its history on its facade.

Curving stone staircase climbing through a wooded park at night, leaf-covered ground, streetlamp flaring through bare branches — Wyman Park Baltimore, MD

Illuminated Domino Sugars sign atop a lit waterfront refinery at night, its glow reflected in still harbour water — Domino Sugar Baltimore, MD

Gutted masonry power station behind chain-link and barbed-wire fencing, a lattice crane rising against a bare sky — Baltimore General Electric 2 Baltimore, MD

Large tarpaulin-shrouded object beside railway tracks and a corrugated shed at night, streetlamps flaring behind — Ghost Train

Racks of coats and suits still hanging in plastic in a derelict factory, debris and a broom on the stained floor — Abandoned Coat Factory 1

Overturned office chairs and desks beyond a concrete column in a gutted floor covered in grit and debris — Abandoned Coat Factory 3

Rows of derelict industrial sewing machines and cutting tables under a peeling concrete ceiling, garments hanging behind — Abandoned Coat Factory 4

Stacked rusting card-index drawers against a wooden wall, papers, torn boxes and scattered rubbish across the floor — Abandoned Coat Factory 5

Bare tree branches overhang a channel of water beside an elevated concrete highway viaduct, distant bridges under a pale sky — Outreach Baltimore, MD

Low view along sagging garment rails hung with coats in a wrecked factory, torn plastic, rubble and daylight beyond — Abandoned Coat Factory 6

Long row of boarded-up brick rowhouses across a wide empty field of dead grass, parked cars along the street — Baltimore Row

Small brick industrial building lit at night by a single flaring lamp above a broken upper window, bricked-up doorway below — Jones Falls 1

Fenced concrete backyard of abandoned rowhouses, bare trees, boarded windows, graffiti and dead leaves along the kerb — MLK Alley 2

Half-demolished concrete tower stripped to its frame above a long rubble mound behind chain-link fencing beside an empty road — BGE Demolition 1

Dark underside of stacked highway ramps framing a triangle of pale sky and a smoking Baltimore-lettered chimney — Smokestack Baltimore, MD

Ruined stone mill walls and doorway with a bare sapling growing through, brick chimney rising behind under blank sky — The Mill Baltimore, MD

Empty factory floor with stacked wooden pallets, flared concrete columns, hanging conduit and stripped windows in grey daylight — Abandoned Coat Factory 2

Curving concrete footbridge sweeping over a dark stream between bare winter saplings and leaf-covered banks — Jones Falls Bridge

Boarded and derelict brick rowhouse backs seen through bare branches across a cracked lot with chain-link fence — MLK Alley 1

Long brick apartment block gutted to empty window openings behind a heaped mound of splintered timber and masonry rubble — Projects Demolition

Stone mill yard with a No Parking sign over a blocked archway, ivy-covered brick wall and dumped car tyres — The Mill 2 Baltimore, MD

Arched concrete bridge lit at night above water smoothed to glass by long exposure, wooden pier pilings foreground — Hanover St Bridge Baltimore, MD

Empty brick pedestrian street at night, shuttered corner shopfront lettered New York Fashions Plus, weeds in a planter — Old Town Mall 1 Baltimore, MD

Rubble-filled lot with a dirt ramp between broken concrete walls, roofless ivy-grown factory shell and gabled warehouse beyond — Ramp 1

City skyline and elevated road framed through a ruined ivy-covered wall opening, rubble and rusted sheeting inside — Window 1